Painter Detective
Painter Detective Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 1 Pencil
- 48 Suspect cards
- 1 Wanted poster
- 6 Parts cards (Facial contour, Eye-Eyebrow, Mouth-Beard, Hair-Ear, Nose, Mole-Scar-Freckle-Wrinkles-Pierce)
Please prepare the timer for one minute.
Game 1 (3-7 players, recommended 3-4 players)
The first Painter Detective is the player that arrest a murder. The player takes the Wanted posters, the pencil and the box cover. The others are the witnesses.
Round
Witness phase
The Painter Detective shuffles and deals all Parts cards to the Witnesses with face down. As the number of the players, some player may receive two Parts cards. But in the game, all player need to keep the fair. Each player takes two Parts cards with the same number in the game.
Caution: The parts cards still are kept with face down.
One witness shuffle the suspect card with face down, and place it on the table as the pile with face down. This is the offender. The Painter Detective closes the eyes, and count 5 seconds. In this time, the witness players open the suspect card as the offender, and memory the face. Before finishing the count, the witness players close the suspect card, and put and shuffle the card into the pile of the suspect cards.
Caution: Please match the direction of the cards.
Testimony phase
The witness players open the Parts card in the front.
In this phase, the witness players need to explain the part of the offender to the painter detective just only by "ORAL".
The first turn player is the player with the card of the facial contour. The player have 30 seconds per one part as to explain it. When 6 or 7 players play this game, it is changed to 15 seconds. After that, the turn player is changed clockwise.
Caution: The witness player must not explain it by the gesture, and vother parts. (sic, as printed)
Caution: Even if the witness player remember the information after the own turn, the player must not say anything.
The painter detective draw the face in the Wanted poster directly. Then the other players cannot see the Wanted poster. So the painter detective uses the inside of the box cover for keeping the Wanted poster. And the painter detective can have the question to the witness.
Search phase
When the painter detective draws all parts, the Wanted poster are opened. And one of the witness count one minute. In counting, the painter detective searches the offender from the pile of the suspect cards. When the painter detective select one suspect card, it is placed on the middle of the table with face up. The painter detective say "Getting!".
Caution: The witness players don't make any action, because it is hint for the painter detective!
Judgement phase
The witness players answer that it is success or failure.
Then all players check the quality of all parts of the Wanted poster for the points.
- Good: ○
- Okay: △
- No: ×
Caution: The players check only the Wanted poster and the suspect card. The way of the explanation is not related. This marks are used at the second game, too.
The painter detective writes the own name and the number of the offender to the Wanted poster. Especially the number is written in the black area.
When it is success, the Painter Detective receives the Wanted poster, and the best witness player receives the suspect card. He/She is decided by the Painter Detective.
When it is failure, the best witness player receives the Wanted poster, and the second witness player receives the suspect card. He/She is decided by the Painter Detective.
End of the round
The round is ended. The painter detective is changed to the next player that is with the lowest Wanted posters and the suspect cards. If tie, the painter detective decides it.
End of the game
The case of 3 or 4 players: When all players finish the painter detective, the game is ended.
The case of 5 or 7 players: When four players finish the painter detective, the game is ended.
The winner is the player with the most Wanted posters and the suspect cards! If tie, the winner is the player with the most suspect cards.
The winner is grateful from the beautiful client, and is named as the great painter detective.
Game 2 (2 players and more)
This game use the used Wanted posters, and the players play like a Karuta as the Japanese traditional game.
The players prepare "the used Wanted posters" pile with face up. If the players can do, the used Wanted posters is hidden from all players. Recommended: It is good for the players with the Wanted posters that nobody knows.
All suspect cards are placed on the table with face up at random.
One of the player says "Now starting!" and put one of the Wanted posters on the middle of the table. When all players try to search the offender. When the player find it, the player say "Getting!", and touch and keep it.
The first touching player counts 10 seconds. Then the other player can try to find the others. If find it, the player can touch it.
After 10 seconds, each suspect card is checked with the number of the Wanted poster as the offender. If it is success, the player takes the Wanted poster. If nobody is success, nobody takes it. The Wanted poster is back to the box.
This way is continued ten times. The winner is the player with the most Wanted posters. If tie, the players check the number of the circles in the Wanted posters. The winner is the player with the lower number. If also tie, triangle too.